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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?

2. When was Mein Kampf published?

3. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?

4. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?

5. What is the second quality of the pseudo-event described by Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the "Crime of the Century" affect Lindbergh's celebrity?

2. What does Boorstin relate of technology and the sciences in Chapter 2 - Section II?

3. What has eroded the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

4. How does Boorstin define "celebrity"?

5. What does Boorstin write of the news industry in Chapter 1 - Section I?

6. What did the advent of tourism do for the American traveler, according to Boorstin?

7. What does Boorstin assert of travelers' dissociation since the advent of tourism?

8. What does Boorstin write of the changing nature of travel in Chapter 3?

9. How does Boorstin compare travel of the past with the present, in Chapter 3 - Section I?

10. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect and influence of the development and publication of digests, such as "Reader's Digest." What does Boorstin conclude the effect was on literature?

Essay Topic 2

When was the Graphic Revolution? What impact did it have on culture and society? How does Boorstin view the effect of the Graphic Revolution?

Essay Topic 3

How are stereotypes distinguished from pseudo-events and propaganda by Boorstin? Who does Boorstin cite in defining stereotype?

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